[genedan]

>We need an industry agreed-upon certification exam.

I'm an actuary who had to take 10 of these for my profession (pass rates 20%-40% each sitting, takes 4 months to study for each one).

They come with the same complaints about false negatives, unrealistic/random questions, and fairness that technical interviews have.

[jedberg]

Ok, but at least you only had to do each one once, and not repeat those tests for every job interview.

[zeroonetwothree]

To do the ten exams is ~3,000 hours of studying. A typical job interview is, say, 6 hours. So that's equivalent to 500 job interviews. Now I suppose if you job hop A LOT then you could reach that number but I expect for most people it's not going to happen. I'm about halfway done with my career and have had <50 interviews.